Djuna Barnes Quotes
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.
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I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
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I'm singing this song for you and your mum that's all,And it won't be long before everyone is gone.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
